Wisconsin · Private foundation
The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $91,871
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $695,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $459k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $1.8M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $2.0M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $1.3M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $1.3M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $1.2M | 63% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $683k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $742k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marcus Lutheran Church | $2,981,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Ozaukee Christian School Inc | $405,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Riveredge Nature Center Inc | $237,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership Inc | $162,000 | 3 | 8% |
| The Friends of the Broughton | $100,000 | 2 | 25% |
| Messmer Inc | $64,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lakeland University | $56,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Restoring Lands Inc | $52,185 | 2 | 1% |
| Bells of St Mary's Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Mequon Nature Preserve Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 28 grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Sartori Family Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Kohler Foundation Inc · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc · West Bend Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Cedarburg Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation give?
- The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $1,789,217 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (89%), Environment (6%), Arts & Culture (2%).
- Who are The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: St Marcus Lutheran Church ($3.0M), Ozaukee Christian School Inc ($405k), Riveredge Nature Center Inc ($238k).
- Does The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Green Bay Packers Foundation, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation based?
- The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation is based in WI.
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